"To Their Coy Mistresses": Tradición e innovación en la poesía amorosa de Herrick a Rochester
Autor
Mora Sena, María JoséFecha
1990Resumen
The paper explores the development of English love poetry in the
seventeenth century. Based on an analysis of three poems by Herrick,
Marvell and Rochester, it will investigate how their respective renderings of
the same theme (carpe diem) reveal a different conception of love and
poetry, as well as a different view of the world. They all share as a common
background the Petrarchan tradition of the Elizabethans, but deviate from it
with an ironic attitude ranging from the trivial light- heartedness of Cavalier
lyrics, to the dramatic intensity of the Metaphysics and, finally, the
devastating cynicism of Restoration authors.